We expect many of you will have moved into Developing and Competent as your ideas have evolved, with some categories in Proficient, for example in citations and sources.
For the third draft, you will need to continue to develop and refine from your second draft. And we expect that you will continue to progress across the grading rubric as you revise and develop your paper. You should target increasing your categories by at least one for each draft, if your goal is to earn an A on your final paper (and you turn in all drafts).
How should you prepare this draft #3?
Your draft for this submission should be a complete draft, with the exception of a still loose and developing solution (we will cover developing your solution in one of the final discussions of the course). Every required section should be represented, and your foundation of identifying the problem, representing stakeholder, and justifying the need for a solution should be well-developed and supported. You should target a complete or nearly complete paper of 2500-3000 words for this draft.
You should incorporate the takeaways from each of the weekly discussions, this time reflecting on the revision process to clarify and strengthen your points. You should refine and develop all of your main points from draft #2: representation of the current situation, a clear and well-justified statement of critical need, representation of any existing or previous efforts to address the critical need, some evaluation of what has made improvements and what hasn’t made improvements, and why the problem persists.
We will give feedback on whatever you submit, and the more complete your submission, the more useful the feedback we can offer.
We will also answer questions you have or offer guidance and direction if you are stuck. We do encourage you to add a set of notes at the beginning or end of your draft with specific questions or areas of your paper that you would like to have feedback from instructors. Please label them as Questions for Instructors.
You should avoid the use of AI tools for any part of this draft. Do not use them for revising your writing to address feedback. Do not use them for polishing your sentences. Do not use them for making corrections to spelling or grammar. And do not use them on future drafts or the final paper.

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